Front and back of membership card for Sloopys nightclub, Fleet St, Dublin. Expiry date on card is April 1972.
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This is just amazing. I was only talking to my sister recently about our many trips to Sloopys and the good old days. If you were lucky enough to be in some of the pubs in town you might bump into Philip Campbell who always had a supply of entry discount cards.
Thanks Loraine, glad you like it. I had heard about Sloopys but was never in it. I know it was in Fleet St, but do you know if it was previously in D’Olier?
I don’t remember it being in D’Olier Street but I started going there in the mid 70′s.
Dubdoug: was that not the Tara Club in D’Olier St? Beside the Gas company?
I don’t know, I was never in Sloopys or Tara Club (honestly)!!
I was never in them either! But I used to get a bus in D’Olier right outside what I’m sure was the Tara. Me and Mickey Duffy (he used to do discos as a DJ – you probably remember him) were refused entry to Sloopys round about 1980, both for being drunk and too young… in no particular order.
sloopys was the for runner of rumours in o,connell street, same guy owned them? rumours from 1980 to 1998, went there all the time, then he started the viper room which is now called gypsy rose, anybody remember top cats/ la mirage,laugh, in parnell street?
Thanks for the info Stephen… looks like you can become our expert on dodgy Dublin night clubs!
la mirage was dodgy alrite, high chrome stools and wall to wall mirrors, till they turned it into fibbers, role on the early ninties ye ha
Sloopy’s in my day was in d”olier Street. God I loved that place so many memories. It was so IN at the time really the In place in Dublin
Thanks Imelda. There is another post on Sloopys with pictures coming very soon .
Hi folks, Sloopys started in D’Olier Street beside the Gas Co. The Tara Club was a new building
on the same site as Sloopys some years later in the 70′s. Sloopys was opened in D’Olier St.
by Michael Ryan & Michael Murphy in 1969 to 1971, and moved to Fleet St. in 71/72.
I put in the sound system in D’Olier St. and endened up being the DJ there. It was the best
Club in Dublin at the time and a great place to work. It was also where I met my wife Karen in 1970.
Still togeather 42 years later.
Regards to all the old members
Mike Wright.
Mike, thanks very much for that info, paticularly regarding the 2 locations. I have some other pix and old newspaper ads so I will be doing a new post on Sloopys very soon. I read in one old magazine article that it could handle 2000 people a night!
I was never in it myself so really good to get that insight from you. If you had to pick one record from your time in Sloopys, what would it be?
I don’t think it could hold 2000 maybe 1200 to 1500, It was the IN club in Dublin at
the time, and the queue for it used to go down D’Olier Street and around the corner
into Hawkins Street up as far as O’Reilly Pub at times, Great Buzz and Memories it
was the BEST. As regards a record it’s so hard to say, I suppose, Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye by Steam, It was a Number One on both sides of the Atlantic for weeks.
I worked in RTE Radio until I retired 2 years ago. About 8 years ago on a program that I was the technician, a guest who was interviewed came over to me afterwards and said “Hi Mike I remember you as the DJ in Sloopys when I first came to Dublin to work for the ESB”.
It was Charlie McGettigan of Eurovision fame. We had a nice chat and both agreed that Sloopy’s was the best place in Dublin at the time. I met him again last year at the Paul McCartney Gig in the RDS and caught up on all the “crack”. One of life’s nice guys.
I worked in Sloopys in the cloakroom then floor manager and warm up dj for Don Rylands till it closed moved to the 2 Ages on the quays only went to the new Sloopys once did not like it, then managed Le Disk in Molesworth St and Seezers in Abbt st. ”Bring Back The Good Old Days”
PS
Glad to see Mike Wright is still with us lol
Thanks for that info David. Did you see the post about Seezers? All the nightclub posts are now under one category. http://brandnewretro.ie/category/nightclubs/
We’ve still some more 70s Nightclub info to post but don’t have anything (yet)on Le Disk. I like the name.
Le DIsk was in Molesworth st, Business People and lots of AerLingus Staff before leeson st got going. Managed ir from pre opening. Seezers was to get a wine lin but did not and was a flop it was owned by Eamonn Andrews Studios which owned the TV Club. The TV Club was a dance Hall and had one club night The New Spotlight Monday Nights on that night they had the best of gigs Status Quo, Linda Martin and Chips, Rob Strong and all the club workers would go cause most clubs did not open Mondays,
Number 5 Club Leeson st Par Egan was the DJ.
The Moulan Rouge s Great Georges st owned by the same guy as the 5 Club the only club in Ireland to have a full sized swimming pool they were trying to copy the Valbon Club In London.
The Green Lounge St Stephens Green young people Sundays Only.
Hope you find this a little usefull i could go on and on lol its my age lol
Anyone who remembers the 5 Club is over 65 now lol.
Great stuff David. Very interesting. Swimming pools et all. Thanks very much.
My friend David Baker above would certainly be the person to ask about Dublin clubs of the ’60′s and ’70′s. He was involved in the club scene both as a manager and a member of many clubs during those years. He was a 5 nights a week club guy, I know, I was with him on many visits to the 5 Club, Arthurs, Sloopy’s, Moulan Rouge, Green Lounge, Zhivagos and many more. Good times were had by all and I met my wife in Sloopy’s like Mike Wright above also. Dave still likes the clubs but now they tend to be in Las Vagas or Huntington Beach, L.A. !